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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. -- Henry Van Dyke
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue. -- William Bennett
Rest and be thankful. -- William Wordsworth
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. -- William Blake
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. -- James Allen
If you count all your assets you always show a profit. -- Wilson Mizner
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. -- Henry Ward Beecher
My resolution is to make positivity, thankfulness and happiness my new mantra. -- Francisco Costa
When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others. -- Dalai Lama
O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness! -- William Shakespeare
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road. -- John Henry Jowett
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. -- Izaak Walton
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. -- Melody Beattie
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get. -- Frank A. Clark
For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. -- Storm Jameson
We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. -- Oprah Winfrey
Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine.. -- Joel Osteen
There is a quiet, open place in the depths of the mind, to which we can go many times in the day and lift up our soul in praise, thankfulness and conscious unity. With practise this God-ward turn of the mind becomes an almost constant direction, underlying all our other activities. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thankfulness eradicates entitlement. -- Perry Noble
Thankfulness makes much of little. -- Charles Spurgeon
Thankfulness is the tune of angels. -- Edmund Spenser
Thankfulness is the life of contentment. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace. -- Todd Stocker
Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives. -- Rumi
Thankfulness should always be our first response when God answers prayers. -- Jim George
Thankfulness and gratitude are the foundation of character and being able to serve others. -- Jim Loehr
Thankfulness is a humble, open and prayerful attitude that helps you receive more of God's grace. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to flower in the summer. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Thankfulness to God is a recognition that God in His goodness and faithfulness has provided for us and cared for us, both physically and spiritually. It is a recognition that we are totally dependent upon Him; that all that we are and have comes from God. -- Jerry Bridges
The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm. -- Mark Twain
. . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for. This, of course, is a fact. Thankfulness does tend to reproduce in kind. The attitude of gratitude revitalizes the entire mental process by activating all other attitudes, thus stimulating creativity. -- Norman Vincent Peale
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. -- Daniel Defoe
If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility. -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere. -- Alberto Manguel
I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence. -- John Frusciante
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. -- C. S. Lewis
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you. -- Chen Guangcheng
Gratitude is thankfulness expressed in action. -- William George Jordan
Joy untouched by thankfulness is always suspect. -- Theodor Haecker
Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. -- John Henry Jowett
We owe thankfulness to God, not sour faces. -- Rumi
My heart is filled with thankfulness to God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness. -- Evagrius Ponticus
You, and your lady, Take from my heart all thankfulness! -- William Shakespeare
The Christian's life should be one of thankfulness to God. -- Charles Spurgeon
You will find joy in everyday life with a heart of thankfulness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised: -- William Shakespeare
Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness. -- Mark Victor Hansen
Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance. -- Robert E. Lee
A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for. -- Norman Vincent Peale
There is nothing that can have a more powerful effect on your mental health than the spirit of thankfulness. -- George Vandeman
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise. -- Alexander MacLaren
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. -- William Blake
If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him. -- Bill Vaughan
Whatever belief we have actually stems from the thankfulness that we feel and this feeling further attracts more happy feelings towards us. -- Stephen Richards
So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart. -- Arthur Guiterman
Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve. -- Wilferd Peterson
Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin. -- Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness. -- Charles Spurgeon
A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes. -- Julia McNair Wright
Those of us have minimized expectations walk around with a greater sense of thankfulness (because so many wonderful things that we didn't expect come our way each day). -- Dennis Prager
When you express thankfulness, even the almost empty tank of petrol will go the extra mile; it changes challenges into opportunities, mistakes into experiences, disappointments into celebrations, doubt into faith. -- Malti Bhojwani
A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution. -- Billy Graham
Drink is in itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine is from God, but the Drunkard is from the Devil. -- Increase Mather
I have been trying to get the hang of not being proud but instead turning that into thankfulness. Really whatever we have to be proud about, it is something given to us by the Lord. -- Mary Engelbreit
Another way Christ affects us is by inspiring our gratitude. He left the glories of heaven in order to become our Savior, and when we recognize that sacrifice, we are filled with thankfulness and praise. -- Charles Stanley

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